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A friend came over this morning and it threw EVERYTHING off. Last night in bed, I pictured myself waking up early and just whipping through my exercise routine so I could shower and brew some coffee in time for the friend to arrive.
Plans from the evening never mesh with plans in the morning.
Once I woke up and assessed my mood, body, joints and gumption, I realized there was no way I was going to move forward without coffee first.
My friend came over. We had a nice visit and then I had the rest of the day to do the exercises. Except I had lost all my motivation. Not really, because there was still the guilt gnawing away at me. But even that guilt did not prevent me from taking a bite of some chocolate cake and considering just throwing it all out the window.
Really! That's how vulnerable this entire eating healthier and better portion sizes and exercising thing is. ONE goofy change of schedule and I was ready to justify away all sorts of things.
But it really is time for a change and I really have been given a nice opportunity to have the time to focus on my health so....I mentioned something to my toddler.
And once I said that I still had to do 8 Minute Abs and Jillian, how could I cop out. I want to be a good role model of tenaciousness.
So I began the 8 Minute Abs at 4:00 in the afternoon and, just like every day, my two toddlers came over and sat on my chest and stomach and flopped around whichever direction my torso was attempting to go. It's good cuddle time, but today I was using it as an excuse to not really try because even the 8 Minute Abs which are usually fairly easy, seemed difficult.
And then my son, sitting astride my stomach looking into my face said, "Mommy, I'm sitting on your muscles". It made me burst out laughing. "Yes, my dear boy. You are sitting on my Very Ripped abdomen (with a great cushion of fat keeping is comfortable)"
It was funny and it was helped me put in that darn Jillian DVD and get through her 20 minutes.
Not a lot achieved on the exercise front today, but I didn't Give Up, didn't eat more than a bite of chocolate cake, and I got a good laugh from my boy.
